It’s a rare video that manages to tell the personal story of someone you’ve never met and keep you riveted to the screen. We caught wind of this piece of YouTube awesomeness through a tip by legendary drag racing announcer Jon Lundberg on the BangShift.com forums. If you love old, legit footage of dragsters doing what they do, you cannot afford to miss this video. Power wheel-standing slingshot dragsters strike chords in our gearhead soul that few other things can reach.

The old footage is really special because it was held by the original shooter for all these years and is finally seeing the light of day. With shots of some car club buddies loading up a neato t-bucket and towing it down the road to the cosmically correct look of a front motor dragster hazing the tires the whole way down the strip, this is must see stuff.

Thanks to Jon Lundberg for the tip to this truly great video!